Lesson video

Hello and welcome to today's spelling lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss, and I'm really looking forward to teaching you.

With you today, we need to bring with you your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains.

As well as that something to write with and someone to talk to would be great as well.

Let's crack straight on into today's lesson.

In today's lesson, we're gonna be looking at some S spellings or spellings for that 's' sound, including 'se' and 'ce.

' So we're gonna be looking at these two digraphs.

The outcomes today is, "I can spell words containing two representations "of the 's' phoneme: 'se' and 'ce'.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

I'd like you to say them after me.

So in my turn, your turn.

And I need to hear you saying it.

It's really important.

Phoneme, phoneme, grapheme, grapheme, digraph, digraph.

So let's happen chat about what these mean.

Phoneme, or phonemes are the smallest units of sound that words can be broken up into.

And the phonemes we are concentrating on today is the phoneme 's.

' That 's' sound, okay? Phonemes have to do with sound.

Grapheme then is the written representation of that sound.

So we are today looking at two different graphemes.

We are looking at our 'ce' and our 'se' graphemes, and these graphemes are digraphs.

They're two letters that represent one sound.

So we're looking at 'ce' and 'se,' both representing that 's' sound.

Keep an eye out for these words today in our learning.

They're gonna be very important.

So here is the outline for today's lesson.

We're obviously looking at different 's' spellings or S spellings.

We're gonna start off by looking at some common exception words.

Then we're going to have a little look at these S spellings, 'se' and 'ce' in a bit more detail.

And then we're gonna have a go at applying these spellings within a sentence as well, which I'm really looking forward to.

So first part of today, looking at some common exception words.

So common exception words are those words that don't follow our regular phonics patterns or rules, which makes 'em a little bit trickier to read or to spell.

So let's have a get at reading some of these words.

My turn, your turn.

Going, going, once, once.

Why might we consider these common exception words, trickier-to-spell words? I want you to have a look at 'em again.

Say 'em again.

Think about what's difficult about them and pause the video.

Have a think about that now.

Brilliant, I had some lovely conversations going on there.

So for me, it's the fact that in going, which is a very high frequency word, it uses the O spelling there, which you might expect to be an "oh," So you might expect it to be, goh, gohing, but it makes a long O sound.

So we don't often see just an O making that a long vowel sound, but it can make that sound.

And in this instance it does.

So it's making an O sound.

So it's going, not gohing, going.

The word once, okay? Absolutely not spelled how it sounds, is it? It sounds like it's wha, wha in it.

So you'd expect there to be W at the beginning.

Once, very strange.

And actually interestingly, it's got that 's' sound in it, hasn't it? Once, and it's that C-E spelling that's representing it at the end, which is what we're gonna be concentrating on today.

So be careful with these spellings, especially any common exception words.

So which of these common exception words that we've just looked at are spelled correctly then? Can you pause the video now and point to the correct spelling of going for me? I am going to make myself a cup of tea, going.

Point to it now, pause the video.

Brilliant, absolutely, it is this one here.

Now the top one does make phonetic sense, I think, 'cause O-W can represent an O sound, and it's got the ing at the end of it.

But we know that ing, going, it's common exception word, and it's just an O spelling, representing that O sound.

Next one is the word once.

Have a look at these spellings for me, as in once upon a time.

Could you please point to the correct spelling of once for me? Now pause the video point to it.

Off you go.

Brilliant, absolutely, it's this really strange one that isn't spelled like it sounds at all.

It's O-N-C-E, once, once, once, brilliant.

So because these common exception words, we effectively just need to learn them by heart.

And one way of doing this is by practise, repetitive practise.

And this is a really good repetitive independent strategy that allows you to see the word practise writing out when you work on that muscle memory between your handwriting in your brain as well.

It's called the look, cover, write, check strategy.

And the way this works is by looking at word.

So I'm gonna look at my word going, I think look at it, put it into my brain, cover it up.

So I can't see it now, going, going, going.

I know what that looks like, I know how it's spelled, have a go at writing it.

My best handwriting, of course.

And then I check back and see how I did it.

Oh, I got it right.

I'm not just gonna do it once.

I'm gonna do it again and again until it's really embedded and stuck in my brain.

So I'd like you now to navigate right into words, going and once using this strategy multiple times, pause the video, have a go using this strategy now.

Absolutely fantastic, hopefully you've got something that looks a little bit like this.

Did you manage to spell them correctly? Don't worry if you didn't.

Take the time now to make any corrections.

See where you're going wrong.

Pause the video and make those corrections.

Fantastic work, so onto the next learning cycle, where we're gonna be looking at more of our 's' spellings, 'se,' and 'ce' in particular.

So I'd like you in a moment to pause video.

I've got loads of words here that contain a 's' sound, an S sound.

And I've got two here that you can see are boxed up.

And I want you to read those words as well.

So we can see here we've got our spelt with an S, our spelt with an double S, and our spelt with a C, that's soft C, as in race, ice, city and fancy.

I want you to pause the video and read the words in the final two columns and think which letters there, which graphemes, which spellings, are making that phoneme and that sound? Pause the video and read those words now.

Brilliant, absolutely wonderful hearing you pronouncing some of these words.

Let's go through them together.

My turn, your turn.

Horse, nurse, house, mouse.

Hmm, let's look at the next column.

Dance, sense, choice, prince.

Brilliant, so we can see here, and I can hear that 's' sound at the end of each of these, the same sound, but it's spelt slightly differently, isn't it? We can see here that we've got our 'se' spelling, and the 'ce' spelling of this 's' sound.

So 'se' and 'ce,' these digraphs here, these graphemes also represent that 's,' phoneme, that sound.

Let's have a look at these words below.

I'm gonna ask you to sort them into the correct columns for me.

Let's read the words.

First of all, horse, dance, nurse, Since, house, choice, and choice in, "I had to make a choice between two things, "and I chose this one." So I want you to pause the video now and sort these into the correct columns based upon the diagraphs.

You can see 'se' or 'ce,' pause the video and do that for me now.

Fantastic work, everyone.

So hopefully you've got two columns that look like this.

Let's have a look and see if we sorted them properly.

We've got horse, nurse, and house in our 'se' column, and in our 'ce' column for that 's' sound, we've got dance, sense, and choice.

Let's have a look at 'se.

' Se is usually found at the end of a word.

We can see it here in horse, nurse, house, mouse, and purse, always at the end.

Where is the 'se' spelling usually found in a word? Pause the video, choose the correct answer.

A, the beginning, B, the middle, C, the end D, anywhere in the word.

Pause the video and and select the correct answer now.

Incredible, absolutely, it is at the end, I'm sure you're screaming at me.

And these words prove it.

Horse, nurse, house, mouse, all with that digraph 'se' at the end representing that phoneme.

Our 'ce' is also usually found at the end of a word, which can obviously be a bit confusing, can't it, 'se' and 'ce' being at the end.

So it's about exposing ourselves and being more word conscious about the words that we see that have that 'ce' or that 'se' spelling, 'cause it's the same sound in the same part of a word.

So it might be easy to confuse.

We can see here the words dance, sense, choice, prince, and peace.

And this is peace as in no fighting, two sides coming together and making peace, not piece as in a piece of cake.

So at the end I about you to pause the video and say, where is the 'ce' spelling usually found in a word? Select from A, B, C, or D.

Pause the video, make your choice now.

Fantastic, absolutely, it's at the end again, similar of our 'se' spelling.

And these words prove it, dance, since, choice, and prince.

So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna have a go at spelling some words that contain some spellings.

So I'm gonna say the words to you, I don't want us to rush, we really need to take our time.

We're gonna need to move to stretch those words.

Sound them out, count those sounds, even write them.

And then look and check as well.

So let's go through the words.

First word we're gonna have is my turn, your turn.

Dance, dance, the pair won the dance competition.

Two, prince, he was crowned prince.

Three is mouse, mouse.

The mouse was the prey of the cat.

And four, horse, the horse galloped around the field, horse.

So remembering, we're stretching, sounding out, counting these words.

Let's think about dance, dance, du, ah, en, 'ce,' du, ah, en, 'ce.

' You might even pronounce it du, ah, en, 'ce,' dance, dependent, again, on accent or pronunciation.

So go through the words one more time, then you are gonna pause the video and have a go at writing them.

We've got dance, or dance, prince, mouse, and horse.

Pause the video, have a go writing these words for me now.

Outstanding work from everybody, brilliant.

I saw some amazing spelling there, some brilliant application of our spelling rules and some great consideration to which words children have obviously seen with either the 'se' or the 'ce' spelling for some amazing word consciousness.

So first one, dance.

I've seen written like this, du, ar, en, 's,' dance.

It's phonetically plausible, but that doesn't look right to me.

I'm quite sure that this word is gonna have either a 'ce' or an 'se' spelling, and it's gonna have just an A representing that R sound if you pronounce it that way.

You may pronounce it just with an eh sound, dance, which is it gonna be, then, 'ce' or 'se'? 'Se' just doesn't look right to me.

It's the 'ce' spelling that is the correct one here.

Brilliant, the next one, prince, prince.

Hmm, they all seem phonetically plausible.

So again, it's about that word consciousness.

It's about knowing which one you've seen written this way before.

It's gonna be that 'se' or 'ce' again, isn't it? I don't think it's gonna be prins, which is what the first one would end up being.

So, hmm, again, I've seen it written like this.

Word-consciousness-wise, it's a 'ce' ending.

The next one was mouse.

I've seen it written in these ways.

Hmm, now we know our O-W can make an 'ow' sound as well, or an O sound.

So it could be, but again, I'm not so sure if it's gonna be just an S at the end.

I think it's gonna be our 'se.

' So it's this one here, brilliant.

And finally, horse, I've seen written in these ways, hors, horce, and horse.

And again, it's that word consciousness.

They're all phonetically plausible.

And we've been looking at the 'se' or the 'ce' diagraphs at the end, and the one that looks correct to me is absolutely this one with an 'se.

' Okay, so we've got mouse and horse here, brilliant.

Both of our 'se,' both animals.

Excellent work, everyone make any corrections.

If you need to now.

Share your magical mistakes, share what you've done really well as well, brilliant job.

Make any corrections, now, pause the video.

Onto our final learning cycle, then, the final part of today's lesson, where we're gonna be applying spellings within a sentence.

We are going to write a sentence containing some of our focus spellings and common exception words.

When we write the whole sentence, we need to do several things at once.

We need to remember the whole sentence.

We need to form letters correctly.

We need to sound out each word.

We need to look out for common exception words.

And we need to remember sentence punctuation.

You don't need to do anything, but listen to me first.

Just listen to the sentence I'm going to read.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house, Make sure to be stand out each word, look out for those common exception words.

And also think about sentence punctuation.

So we're gonna use some strategies to help us to remember this sentence, listening carefully.

The first is marching out.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house.

You have a go at marching it out now.

Pause the video.

Fantastic, the next, whispering it.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house.

You pause the video and whisper it to yourself or to someone around you now.

And the final one is gonna be counting those words.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house.

I made that 10.

Pause the video, say the words and count each one in your fingers now.

Fantastic everyone, so I'm gonna say the sentence once more now then you are gonna pause the video and have a go at writing it.

Make sure you sound out each word.

Look out for these common section words.

Check your sentence, punctuation.

Once the prince danced with a horse in the house.

Pause the video.

Have you go at writing that sentence now.

Off you go.

Outstanding work everybody.

So we're gonna go through the sentence now and going to check your work and make any corrections as we go along.

Let's see how you did.

Once, that's one of our common exception words.

And it also has our 's,' 'ce' spelling for that sound at the at the end.

Remember it needs a capital letter.

Also, a comma here will be really good too.

Once the prince, ah, again, it's that 's' sound at the end.

And it's 'ce' spelling.

Danced, our root word here is dance, or dance, and we just added that suffix D D onto it to make it past tense.

So danced, or danced, with a horse.

And that's the 'se' spelling like we looked earlier at the words mouse and horse.

And they both had that 'se' spelling.

In the house.

And look the word house again, similar to mouse or horse, that 'se' spelling at the end.

Maybe there's a pattern there that can help us.

Mouse and house both have that 'se' spelling.

And it's an O-U for that ow sound.

And I'll put an exclamation mark, but it could have been a full stop.

I put an exclamation mark just because it was such a crazy thing, a prince and a horse dancing in a house, so unexpected.

What did you learn? Have you got any corrections to make? Pause the video, share what you've learned with those around you and make any corrections now.

Pause the video.

Fantastic job, everyone.

So in today we've been looking at that phoneme, that 's' sound, haven't we? And we said that it can be spelled in several ways.

and we've said it can include that 'se' or the 'ce' spelling.

And they're both usually found at the end of a word.

And because they're both found at the end of a word, it's really important that word consciousness-wise, we just learn those words that have them at the end.

Words like horse, nurse, and house contain that 'se' spelling and words like choice, print, and dance contain that 'ce' spelling.

Fantastic work today everyone.

Keep an eye out for words that have the 'se' or the 'ce' spelling in your reading.

Keep up the great spelling.